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out there that can't do it. So, the news. Ushik
and Dubois are fighting again. This time, it's
happening in London. Wait, it was in Poland last
time, right? Yeah, that's right. I don't remember.
I am excited for this rematch, though. Yeah.
Was it a low blow? No. Sorry. Yes, it was a low
blow. No, there was no controversy. Okay. Stirring
the pot? I think so. Maybe I'm looking at the
wrong angles. I didn't see it the right way.
But if you look on the Instagram, I have a picture.
And I tried to use filters to give it more contrast.
And it looks like it's on the belt line. Yeah,
okay. But it's, what, a year later? A year and
a half? We're quite a ways on. People have been
going frame by frame to find the one frame where
it doesn't look low. And people are mad that
the referee made a split decision saying it was
low. Yeah, split second decision, of course.
at real time yeah and people are still arguing
even with literal frame by frame moments so i'm
looking at the some whoever it is i found that
from i don't remember uh but i guess they picked
the frame that doesn't show it low i i don't
know i don't really care all that much but that's
that's the one frame that's stuck in my mind
yeah i just It's ridiculous. It could have been
just that it clipped the cup and it knocked it
in such a way that it hit the essentials. Well,
and even if it's on the belt line, the belt line's
not always in either. Yeah, exactly. You're exactly
right. Yeah, the trunks could be higher or whatever.
Could do the grandpa style like Fury does. Fury
coming into that last Usyk fight was doing every
small thing he could. He had the beard to hide
his chin line. He had his shorts up around his
fucking tits. He was trying so hard to cheat
without cheating. And still lost. It was great.
This one's happening at Wembley. It was supposed
to happen in the US along with Shakur Zapata
and something else. I don't remember the third
fight. Well, that's on the Berlanga card, right?
Berlanga, yeah. But this was supposed to be a
part of it. That's a good lead -in, unless you
have more about this. No. go ahead so the rumors
are that that uh berlanga card's going to be
in central park now as opposed to what before
times square what there was no there was no before
the like so all the major venues are booked that
weekend what weekend is it or what what what's
the date is it july i can't remember It's not
the Puerto Rico parade day, if that's what you're
thinking. I was thinking July 4th, whatever weekend
that is. No, I don't think so. It's the same
weekend as Serrano. Taylor, which is MSG, if
I'm not mistaken. Yeah, it's the day after. It
is July 12th. All right. But MSG, according to
people. doesn't do two things on the same weekend.
It takes too long to take down and set back up.
Now, I don't know if that would be the case with
two boxing matches, but they're different promotions.
So I can't see them working together. Yeah, that
would have to be on the venue to kind of act
as the answer. Change everything, probably. And
not even just change it, but to just change the
fucking drapes. that's all you really need like
change the the advertised advertisement stuff
yeah but then who pays for setup and who pays
for takedown and etc etc i just the nobody seems
to think that they'll do both in the same place
lame and what's the other arena there was some
sort of concert or something The hall? Yeah.
The MSG theater or whatever? No, what's the other
location that they sometimes do fights? They're
not always at MSG. It's like the Berkeley Center?
Barclays. Yeah. It's also booked. So people were
like, where could they possibly do this? And
the rumors are it's going to be in Central Park.
How? man childish of course we're gonna put it
in the fucking central park and everyone's gonna
love it it it would actually be kind of cool
i think i didn't know that they had a stage or
kind of thing yeah i didn't either but since
this was the rumor yeah they do have like a place
where they do concerts and stuff so there's a
stage and an area that they can exclude people
from so there would probably actually be tickets
sold i assume this time central park amphitheater
uh let's look into it i'm gonna yeah i mean it
it is a concert stage looking thing i think they
would have to change some stuff but i could see
setting up like seats and things around it oh
shit yeah it's a real stage it's this is fucking
the space is uh is pretty huge here let me i'm
gonna send this to you directly on discord yeah
like it seems like a much easier place to host
a fight than fucking times square which is turning
into a shit show yeah So I think that could be
cool. Yeah, if you look at the photo I sent you,
like, it's just, there's a giant space for people.
Yeah, yeah. That looks like maybe two or three
baseball fields big. Yeah. You could put the
ring right in the middle and then just whatever.
Set up seats and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know
that. They'd probably walk off the stage for
the walkouts, I assume. Oh, walk from the stage
to the ring. To the ring in the center. You could
have the big videos playing behind them and some
fireworks and shit. I think this would be a cool...
The entrance archway. Yeah. This actually could
be pretty cool. This makes a lot more sense.
The only problem is with any outdoor event, it's
July. Is it going to rain? Is it going to be
800 degrees? It'll be humid. Being in the park
should help, though. There's been huge studies
on how Central Park is 5 to 10 degrees colder
than anywhere else in New York because of all
the plants. Yeah, there's... I mean, that's a...
I don't know if it's common knowledge, but it's
a well -known thing that having parks nearby
does decrease temperature considerably than places
without. Yeah. And if they can do outdoors in
California in July, I don't see why you couldn't
do New York. It's different problems, but, you
know. It was raining, I think, during Sergio
Martinez versus... jcc jr and uh yeah martina
slipped on the water yeah i mean any outdoor
event's gonna be like that though i don't like
boxing outside i mean i think it looks cool but
you can't be prepared for all weather it's just
not possible too much exposure to the elements
and you can't yeah can't plan for everything
well and if they do have to build like a big
uh cover for it then you block people's view
and all sorts of problems but that could be cool
and then the other controversy with this card
is berlanga shiraz is the main event even though
or it's being billed as the main event even though
uh stevenson versus the paid as a title fight
I wouldn't say that's unusual or something. I
don't know why that would be a controversy. Shakur
is fucking... Boring as hell. Why would you want
to build him at the top? I would not want to
have him as my headliner. But generally, Shakur
is the biggest name. Yes. Of everyone else who's
on it, he is the bigger name for sure. He's the
biggest name, and it's a title fight. So by general
standards, he should be the main event. Has he
tried not being boring as fuck? And then we wouldn't
be having this problem. This is also my thought.
But people are trying to make it all about Turkey
playing favorites with his guy, with Shiraz.
Which I'm sure that's part of it. But Shakur
is boring as fuck. And nobody thinks that's going
to be a good fight. Everybody thinks Shakur is
just going to be negative and Zepeda is going
to miss. Yes. It's going to be Casemiro -Rigo
2. Tevin Farmer, as much as I dislike using the
term, I think it is applicable here that Tevin
Farmer did expose a lot of Zepeda's deficiencies.
And Shakur Stevenson, whatever his other faults,
he is a lot more technically sound than Tevin
Farmer. So I don't see this being a good fight
either. But Tevin Farmer is aggressive. True.
True. Yes. Okay, so I also think this is probably
wishful thinking. But my wish, and people are
going to make fun of me, call in, do your thing,
but Shakira's not going to be able to keep Zepeda
off him. Hell no. At all. And he's going to try,
because he's going to have to throw punches.
And Zepeda's got that big old Mexican hand, and
Shakira's going to break his hands. He's going
to break a hand on Zepeda's hand and he's not
going to be able to stop Zepeda. And Zepeda's
going to catch him. It's going to happen. That
last part might be completely wishful thinking.
The hand breaking is not out of the realm of
possibility. I would bet money on a hand injury.
You could bet that just in general because both
of them have had hand injuries. I don't think
Zepeda is going to be able to hit Shakur clean
enough to hurt his hands. But I think Shakur
is going to have to throw too many punches and
he's going to hurt himself. Whether that's going
to be enough for Zepeda to actually win is probably
no. But it's going to turn into... Casimiro,
Regan Dow, I think. It's just going to be Zepeda
chasing and missing and Shukur dancing away because
he doesn't want to throw punches because his
hands hurt. Damn. So I don't blame them for not
putting that as the headline. And for all his
other faults, Berlanga's exciting. Yeah, for
all his other faults, he does come to rumble.
And... He's Puerto Rican in New York. He's the
only guy with a New York following. Plus, Turkey
gets to put his favorite at the top of the bill
then as well. And I'm sure there's a contingency
of Muslim bros that they could rally around for
Shiraz. Yeah. It's not like they have very many
non -African American boxers to get behind. The
Muslims in general. Not that I pay attention
to people's religions, but I can't think of any
other Muslims that aren't African American. I
think the term is MENA, Middle East, North Africa.
And that encompasses the entire Arab world. Okay.
And it's secular. You know how good I am with...
words i i yeah i get into the weeds with that
kind of stuff just because i think like ethnonyms
demonyms i think they're really interesting yeah
sorry fucking nerd alert god so okay it'll bring
out the the menas the mina people i was trying
to get it like the minions New York, New Yoricans
is the New York Puerto Ricans. New Yoricans.
Is that what, really? Is that the thing? Or did
you make that up? I've heard it before. I am
not smart enough to make that up. It's just the
portmanteau. Yeah. Yeah. I'm bad at those. Anyways,
it was probably a pro boxing. Chris Algieri calls
them New Yoricans. Mena Yorkers. Mean New Yorkers?
New Yorkers? Yeah. Anyways, so they're probably
going to hopefully get a new kind of demographic
out to the fight. Yeah, hopefully. And the Mexicans
are everywhere. It's a reality. The diaspora
is fucking everywhere. Oh, shit. So we have Usyk
Dubois. The Central Park, potentially Central
Park card. I saw this thing. Anthony Joshua's
looking at three fights tops before he retires.
I mean, he's kind of there, right? Like, that's
reasonable. Yeah. He's, I mean, Tyson Fury, of
course, the biggest fight that they could make.
But that's assuming Tyson Fury comes out of retirement
again, which is very possible. I would say probable.
Yeah. For AJ money. Fury will come out of retirement
for AJ money. It's more likely than not that
he comes out of retirement. Yeah. He wants a
Dubois rematch, which makes sense. You'd want
to get that one back. And another one. I don't
know if he'll get that, though. I don't think
so. I think that's less likely. Dubois has a
lot on his plate right now with the IBF belt
in his hands. Yeah. And they also mentioned a
possibility of fighting Jake Paul. Why? I was
thinking the same thing. Oh. Money, of course.
Obviously. Did you see that Eddie Hearn slipped
up and said Tank is fighting Jake Paul? I did
hear that. I did hear that he let that slip.
That's fun. That's really stupid. That's the
dumbest fucking shit I've ever heard. It's the
biggest circus fight I have ever heard. But if
you want a spectacle... And Tank's not even going
to be able to reach his head. Like, he's going
to have to fucking jump. Just super bad punches.
It'll be similar to Logan Paul versus Floyd Mayweather.
Like, the size disparity is just really... was
really pronounced. is tank as tall as floyd no
hell no floyd may well yeah i was gonna say five
seven five eight floyd's got like three or four
inches on him doesn't he uh tank i think is like
five two or five three yeah short as fuck he's
shorter than i am i know that and it's if he
makes 135 that's he must be just a fucking brick
shithouse a meatball I got two fosters today.
Oh, nice. Cats? Yeah. Do you ever foster dogs?
I've only fostered two dogs before. Nice. Frozen
shit like all cats do? No, they're tiny. They're
little, tiny little babies. Like they just came
out, came off of bottle feeding. Oh, crazy. Yeah.
Um, right. So AJ and his three fights. Don't
pick Jake Paul. Jake Paul, don't fight Trevante
Davis. Please. Ridiculous. Please. Yeah, I guess.
Who else would you have AJ fight? Like, Wilder,
I guess. That never happened. That never happened,
and I think it still should. I don't know, man.
Wilder's looked so cooked. I don't think I even
want to see it anymore. Gerald Miller? I said
that unironically. No. No. Let's see here. Could
do Parker again. Lawrence of Coley. If you want
to do an all British thing. I mean, if you want
to do a passing of the torch type thing. Who's
the youngest guy you would have fight AJ for
his last fight? If everybody looks good in the
next two years or whatever. If all things going
well or according to plan, it's hard to say because
Gerald Miller and I was going to say Fabio Wardley,
but we're recording this on Friday. It's going
to be coming out after their... they fight on
the card so we don't know who won yet uh at least
as of this recording we don't know so i'll say
fabio wardley uh that's a good like youngster
that you want to get some shine on um is he young
for some reason i thought wardley was he's 30
not so i don't know how young that is that's
not old but Passing of the British torch, I guess.
Dubois is 27. And I think he took the torch.
He took that torch. He took the torch. Agit Kabayel
is not a terrible guy to... Well, if you just
want to go off on a win, then probably not. But
I also rate Kabayel really highly. Martin Bacoli?
That doesn't excite me. AJ deserves an exciting
fight for his last one. Something exciting. Tyson
Fury, Deontay Wilder. I think those need to happen.
Those are really the only two. Yeah. If it's
possible to get the Dubois rematch, do that.
Do that as your last one so that you could get
the win back as you head out the door. Or not.
Because I think it's likely not, to be honest.
What, he loses again? I think so. I would agree.
Dubois found himself. I rate Dubois. I actually
think he has a good chance against Usyk this
time. It'll be better. A much better performance.
He was doing pretty well the first time. Yeah,
which is why better is... concerning for Usyk.
And he's, Usyk's like almost 40. Goodness. Is
he? He's 38. Damn, he's older than us. Yeah.
That's crazy. Speaking of Dubois, Derek Chisora's
been made an IPF mandatory. Yeah, we talked about
this a while back. How? Why? Like, are you guys
just trying to kill him? Yeah. What the fuck,
guys? Where I found the article, it's just kind
of rehashing it, but they pull up like five to
ten different social media responses to it, and
all of them are like, what the fuck even is this?
Why are you doing this to Derek Chisora? His
brain is... do at this point, but you put him
in against Dubois, and it's gonna be soup. He'll
take the fight. Of course he will. He's fucking
Derek Chisora. He's never gonna say no. That's
why somebody, like in this case, the IBF, somebody
needs to step in on his behalf, even though he's
not gonna like it. You need to have the hard
conversation. Like, dude, you're not going to
win a title again. Dubois will whoop your ass.
Pretty much any... Usyk would whoop your ass.
Like, he beat you the first time and it was kind
of stinky, but he will beat your ass the second
time. Usyk has gotten used to the weight. Yeah.
Like... I mean, I like Chizora. I do too. But
he needs to stop. Yes. And everybody's like,
oh, bro's got bills to pay. Man, if you pissed
away all of the money you've made, because I'm
not saying that he made the most money ever,
but he's made a lot of money boxing. And he deserved
it. But if he's pissed it all away, another paycheck
isn't going to help. Yeah, that's financial literacy
kind of thing. Yeah, that is not. You're not
helping him by getting him one more big paycheck.
If that is your worry. Because it will also get
pissed away. Trying to think who you could do
for Derek Chisora. He's at 36 and 13. So that's
49 fights. He wants to do 50. I'm looking at
the top. The winner of Fisher Allen. Oh, shit.
That's good. but that's good derrick will probably
win let him go out on a win his 50 fights and
fucking get out if it's fisher that wins and
it probably will be maybe question mark that
one i really don't know but if it is fisher that
wins he comes with a built -in fan base chizora
comes with a built -in exactly that's exactly
what i was gonna say is he has one too As mid
as both of those fighters are, that would be
a big card. People would buy tickets. Derek Chisora,
dude. It's time, man. Yeah, man. It's not even
like calling him Unk because he's not that much
older than we are. But he is. Yeah, you got the
mileage. man yeah it's it's time to start thinking
about your life after this because like you're
you're 41 now with all of the damage you've taken
you're probably looking at a solid like 15 to
20 years maybe that's it yeah of good quality
life so it's time to start thinking about other
stuff man your priorities have to change Chizora
makes me kind of sad. He makes me sad. He is
the only person I am sad when he wins. It's bittersweet.
He's the only person I like that I'm sad when
he wins. Yeah. That's a good way to put it. I
don't want him to keep going. I want him to stop.
I want him to go have a nice life. Yeah, man.
Eat some fucking burgers and... What's the disgusting
fast food takeout? Five Guys or something? He
likes Five Guys. No, but that's American. I was
trying to make a British joke. Nando's? Yeah.
Takeaways from Nando's? Yeah, yeah. Well, they
call it a Chinese. Oh, yeah. Maybe I'm thinking
Irish. A curry? A spice bag. Spice bag is what
I'm thinking, but that might be Irish. That's
Irish. Yeah. Just this guy on Instagram I follow
who's hella Irish. And he broke down the slang
one time. Is he the follow me, I'm delicious
guy? That's exactly who it is. Garan. I fucking
love him. Follow me, I'm delicious. I need a
catchphrase like that. But that's... That actually,
when I worked as a chef, as a private chef, I
did live deliciously. Nice. That seems like it
was probably taken. It is. I got it from Olivia.
WBA, up to their usual shenanigans. So they were
supposedly, well, they had been, actually. They
were on a good streak of cutting back. the regular
titles and the super titles. And now they've
decided to make Jaron Ennis the super champ.
And now Ryan versus Romero is going to be for
the regular title, the WBA welterweight. They
just want a title on that card? I assume that's
what it is. That's bullshit. I hate when they
do this stuff. Yeah. You could make it a commemorative
belt like the WBC does all the time. Well, so
that one has enough names that casuals will recognize
that it's all just marketing. Like, if you throw
title match on the poster and the ads, casuals
that follow Ryan Garcia don't know what a fucking
title is or what that means. Like, they don't
care. Between regular and super title? They probably,
honest to God, half the Garcia fans probably
don't know that there's more than one belt. Four
elite belts. Several secondary belts. And 8 ,000
other ones. Yeah, 8 ,000 regional titles. Yeah.
And each one of those, every single one of those
belts can be doubled by just adding interim.
Yeah. So they just want it for the posters. Yeah.
And it's Ryan, so it's a big sanctioning fee.
Yeah. Speaking of that card, I have placed my
bets on Ramirez and... Barbossa? Rowley. I didn't
place a bet on Barbossa. I don't know. Tio might
pull it out. I can't tell. He probably will.
Did notice that he actually wore a shirt this
last time he was on. The first two press conferences,
he didn't wear a shirt. I don't know if anyone
else noticed, but he had on like a vest and he
had on like a jacket, but there was no shirt
underneath him. Who does that? Last thing. We're
coming up on time, and we've got a few things
to get to that are more important than all of
these TMZ headlines. Fair enough. One quick one.
There was a drama one that Shakur Stevenson has
left Matchroom or whatever. It's not true. He
had a two -fight deal with Matchroom. He's only
had one fight so far, and that was against Padley.
Yeah. So the Zepeda one is with Matchroom. That's
how it is. And Ludabella? He might have him as
a manager. Yeah. He is a New York guy. It makes
sense to get a New York person. Yeah, to handle
your image while you're going to be competing
there. Yeah. Mike Tyson's trainer regrets telling
fans to bet against Jake Paul. Okay. And Spence
is not... He didn't say outright that he's retiring,
but he's going to be looking at promoting. Because
when Frank Martin fought Gervonta Davis, he helped
promote that event. And he really liked being
on that side of it. His words. On God, Spence
is physically damaged beyond repair. Like, Spence
is fucked. I put that on Alex's life. On Alex's
life, Spence is damaged goods. I know nobody
believes me, but that first car crash fucked
over. The second car crash made it worse. A damaged
Spence is still a really good boxer, but he's
damaged real bad. Right. He's definitely not
the same. And to think he is. A serious car crash
is going to change you. It doesn't matter who
you are. That's flipping over and over, getting
thrown from the fucking vehicle. Retina surgery,
the second car crash did not help anything. Yeah,
the dude should be promoting. He likes it. He
said he felt like he was doing a good job at
it. I think he was all right promoting Frank
Martin. So, yeah, he wants to start passing on
his knowledge to the new guys on the block. So
that's cool. I think it's a good move. Yeah.
I'm happy. I'd like to see him take the spotlight
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What a weekend. We've talked, I think we already
talked quite a bit about Raleigh, Ryan. Teofimo
versus Barbosa and Devin Haney versus Ramirez.
You've already placed your bets. Small ones.
Huh? Small ones. Coffees, right? Yeah, yeah.
So $250 each. And I think the payout is like
$10. Oh, no, it'd be more than that. It's 6 -1
and 7 -something -to -1. Is Raleigh the 7 -to
-1? Yes. I fucking hate Garcia, and I don't think
he's that good. He'll probably pull out another
bullshit win. He's a one -hitter. Like, he's
a one -trick pony. Otherwise, he's pretty ass.
Weird fucking turning his kidneys as a defense.
Like, what the fuck is that? Here's my liver.
Go right ahead. I know Roley doesn't have much
power, but I really want him to just... fucking
drop them with a body shot i can't help but think
of those uh if so and so had an alberta accent
videos that i keep saying you've been loving
those those are so fucking funny they're so funny
uh but like as i can if ryan garcia had an alberta
accent that's what's coming to mind right now
I'm here, buddy. You fucking what, buddy? You
fucking what? I can't do that weird Alberta accent
because to me it just sounds native and it feels
super racist. Oh, shit. Yeah. It's not anymore,
but to me that's what it is. But it's Letter
Kenny. Letter Kenny fucked over Alberta. And
that Northern Ontario accent was always really
native -sounding to me. One other fight on this
card. LaVale, I think it is. LaVale Whittington
versus Reito Tsutsumi. No relation, I think.
Yeah. Tsutsumi seems to be a much more... common
name than I thought. That's what I was just about
to say. It doesn't seem like it's as rare as
I thought it was originally. I think this Tsutsumi
cat is supposed to be... Is he the one from ProBucks?
No. No. No, this is his debut. I don't know.
He's supposed to be like an amateur standout
if it's... Who I'm thinking of. It's either him
or somebody on the Inouye card. But enough of
that one. Moving on to motherfucking Dinero vs.
Skull. Is that this weekend too? Oh yeah, it's
Cinco de Mayo, isn't it? It's the 5 -2. That
weekend. Yeah, the Friday is the Times Square
card. Saturday is Alvarez versus Skull and then
Sunday is Inouye versus Cardenas. Nice. I apparently
was not excited for Canelo at all because I forgot
it was happening. Yeah, it's like really who
gives a shit? This is like Usyk and Dubois too.
It's just like the person who is the rightful
owner of the belt has to fight the one that...
it was given to after they were stripped with
the IBF. So it's whatever. Alvarez is the undisputed
champ. William Skull is just some fucking guy
that Turkey wants him to face just to get the
belt back as a formality. Have we seen Skull
fight? Okay. I do not recognize his face at all.
Or... Any of these names on BoxRec. Who did I
see him fight? Shishkin, I think. Yeah, when
he got... That was his last fight. Yep. He wears
glasses as a fashion accessory. Because those
things look way too ridiculous to be... Real?
Yeah, to be prescription. Whatever works for
you, dog. I mean, that's fine. Yeah. Whatever
works. Spence wears glasses for fashion. My disability
is not your fashion. My culture is not your costume.
Yeah. I don't know if glasses are culture, but...
Fucking blind -ass people. I am actually legally
blind if I can't wear glasses. It's crazy. I'm
not. I just... Have a little difficulty reading.
Oh, no. I'm minus 8 .5 in one eye and minus 9
.25 in the other. Fucking auntie is blind. Super
blind. I broke my glasses once. I didn't break
them. The screw fell out driving home. And I
live 30 kilometers from town. And I just had
to pull over on the side of the road. And this
was before I had a cell phone. i'm that old my
family had a cell phone but i didn't i just had
to pull over and wait for somebody to drive by
it took an hour and a half holy and i was like
because i was on the highway it's not a busy
highway but i was like holy like i could kill
somebody even with one lens i just couldn't do
it i tried it was bad yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't
take that take that chance either gravel roads
where i could drive like 10 and kind of feel
the ditch i would have but you know where we
saw william skull is when he fought uh when it
was alvarez first munguia he was on that undercard
and then uh shishkin afterwards for the i think
shishkin was elevated i don't think it was a
vacant fight but yeah that's where we saw uh
badu jack is still fighting why don't know if
we did see skull there he was so far down i don't
think he was on the broadcast yeah um badu jack
has a title doesn't he he has the i think the
full wbc cruiserweight belt and mccallion no
mccallion has a full title badu jack has the
interim He's Swedish? He lives in... He's adopted.
That says his birthplace is Stockholm, Sweden
on Botrek. Yeah, that's where his adopted family
is. I think he was adopted as a baby. Crazy.
So they just put it as Sweden. Why have I not
been cheering for Badu Jack then? What, did you
think he was American? I did. This Swedish erasure
will not be tolerated. Who's the guy on The Simpsons?
He's from Iceland. Carl? Carl Carlson is from
Iceland. Oh, right. Jaime Munguia versus Bruno
Saras. It's happening again. Nice. I'm interested
to see how this plays out. I'm hopeful for Munguia.
I mean, I like Munguia. I want him to win. And
I don't particularly have any love for the French.
But can you imagine if Saras does it again? Can
you imagine? I would lose my mind, to say the
least. I cannot imagine. Like, that would be
fucking madness. Martin Bacoli versus Efe Ajogba.
I think this was always going to happen despite
the... This was already scheduled. Despite the...
And the Parker loss was just... Whatever. How
heavy do you think Bacoli will be? 270 to 280.
Because what did he come in last time? 330? Yeah,
it was like 325, I think. Or 330, you're right.
I want to check now, just to be sure. Yeah, I
jumped on BoxRec, but they don't put the weights.
Do they put the weight? They put the opponent's
weight, I think. So I have to go to Joseph Parker.
Yeah, he was 310. I'm interested to see how much
lower he is this time. That could be a really
good fight, though. Focolia -Jagva? That might
be exciting. I think that's going to be one of
those don't blink because it's going to be really
tense and really cagey. I don't think it's going
to be fireworks. No? No. They're both going to
be leery of each other's power and they're not
going to want to get into exchanges too much.
Which is the whole problem with heavyweight.
Yeah, it's just who lands first. Boring. I think
a jogba might pull it off. You think so? He's
younger. How much younger is he? Because Bakoli
is 33. Why do you not have your age on here?
It's a secret. Yeah, no shit. That is weird.
Maybe he doesn't know. He is listed as inactive.
Wikipedia should have it. 31. 31. Okay, so he's
not that much younger. Never mind. I'm just thinking
because he has that 1 -2 pretty dialed in. People
were calling him the next Deontay Wilder because
of it. Yeah, they're the same height, so nobody
really has a height reach advantage. Wait a second,
let me check. Oh, and then Bacoli doesn't have
his reach on Boxrec. God damn it, guys. What
is Martin Bacoli's reach? Martin Bacoli's reach
is generally listed as 77 inches. 77, that's
it? However, some sources state it's 82. A job
is listed as 85 on BoxRec. So that long reach
might make a difference. Yeah. Thanks, Google
Gemini. That's where I got those ass fucking
pound -for -pound lists. They weren't that ass,
but... They weren't great. They weren't great.
No. No. That's it for this card. This is a much
better card than I thought it was. It is really
good, even if the main event is a fucking joke.
There's three other really good fights on here.
Munguia Saras, a lot of drama there. Bacolia
Jogba. Take it for what it is, but enjoy it.
I don't know who this other guy is, but body
Jack always comes to swing. Like he's exciting.
It's good. It's good to see the, this is the
WBC cruiserweight title. So this is the one that's
been kind of off to the side just because we
had nothing on McKaylee and he was having like
promotional disputes and body Jack was the interim.
We have Opitaya and Zerdo. So it's, finally we're
gonna see what this belt is about like what the
title holder is about and see if they have anything
to offer to the arc two uh premier cruiserweights
i haven't noticed how many promotional bodies
are on this either like there's top rank matchroom
three lions who the fuck is three lions I don't
know. Sounds like a native guy. Daniel Otter.
I assume it's similar to the... What's the Canadian
one? Eye of the Tiger? Yeah. I was going to say
Lion for some reason. And Queensberry. And Boxer.
Fucking everybody's in on this card. I wonder
who their fighters are. Oh, Daniel Otter is the
Three Lions Promotions guy. Okay. So. And Canelo
Promotions is also on this too. Sorry, I said
something I'd already said. Daniel Otter is Canadian.
He is one of the Canadian ones, like Eye of the
Tiger. It'll be one of those. Lower level. Yeah.
Lower down the hill. I'll be nice. I was going
to say. It'll be one of those biker gang promotions.
Oh, shit. It's pretty much all Canada has. Biker
gang promotions? Well, they're all from Quebec,
and Quebec's run by... Anyways, I'll stop being
terrible. Shitting on the canoodles, French canoodles?
Well, Quebec and Ontario, but Quebec's the worst.
Like, they have infrastructure problems because
the mob. the french mob over there does the shady
oh yeah my cousin can build that and then they
take a bunch of the money and then a bridge collapses
every 10 years that's not not great no no they
had been doing better lately but i'm sure the
boxing hasn't cleaned up yet anyways this re
-op season one has literally everybody promoting
on it you know who doesn't have everyone promoting
on it Because it's only top rank. The Vegas card?
The Vegas card on the 4th. Naoya Inoue versus
who gives a shit. I'm sorry. Pro box guy Ramon
Cardenas. I'm sure you're going to give us a
fucking hell of a show, man. I'm sure he will
do his best. Yeah. I will give him 10 -10 rounds
every time because he's trying his hardest. Do
you have a full card for this? Yeah. Because
BoxRec does not. BoxRec's only got two fights
listed. Yeah, it's in the doc. Did I click on
the wrong thing? It looked like the doc wasn't
updated. Maybe. I bet you I clicked on B -side.
There we go. I had the wrong document open. I
thought you just didn't have time to update it.
No. I had it filled out. Yeah, sorry. My bad.
Yep, there's two fights on the card that still
don't have opponents. That's not good. They're
down the bill. Still not good. It's a week away.
True. Versus the legendary TBA. It's supposed
to be a 10 -round featherweight fight, so we'll
see. Art? Barrera Jr. vs. Juan Carlos Guerra.
Gotta really roll that R on Guerra. Six rounds
at 154. Mikito Nakano. This is the guy I was
wondering if he was the Japanese prospect that's
debuting this weekend, but at a 10 -round featherweight,
I don't think he's debuting. He might be. Who
knows? He might be one of those older ones. Could
be. Give me two seconds. Sure. He is 29 and has
had 12 fights, 11 wins by KO. Is he 12 -0 or...?
Yeah. Cool. If this is the right guy, because
they're not listed on BoxRec on this card. On
the fight, no. They're not. I've looked into
ways. You have to be an approved editor to be
able to add fights. I'm assuming the top guy
that came up is the right guy. Probably. The
other fight that does not have an opponent yet,
Emiliano Vargas. Eight rounds at 140. It's not
going to be a good opponent. not with a week's
notice not with a week's notice and you're like
you're gonna put them on this platform so you're
you're asking somebody go get go get embarrassed
for eight rounds in front of in front of hundreds
of like hundreds tens of thousands of people
yeah in vegas yeah on international tv that you
know millions of people are going to watch yeah
like the entire country of japan is going to
watch this happen to you yeah perfect that sounds
like a great time sitting there like looking
at me uh rohan polanco this is the welterweight
guy that he's been finishing his fights pretty
quickly impressive power really explosive uh
dynamic athleticism look pretty good and he's
fighting fabian maidana of the famous boxing
Maidanas, the fighting Maidana brothers. Nice.
So that's cool. Moving in, co -main, Rafael Espinoza
versus Edward Vasquez, WBO featherweight title
on the line here. I don't know. Espinoza should
win, right? Just based on the box rank, box rec
ranks, Espinoza at three, and Edward, At 70.
Not expecting a whole lot. I'm going to guess.
Let me check. I'm going to guess that this is
a. This guy lost to Corvina. Good one. And he
lost to Ford. Those are his two losses. He's
number 10 in the WBO. This has to be a voluntary
defense. I think that what they're wanting to
do is give him a showcase, give Espinoza a showcase.
Because there's going to be a lot of people watching.
And I think they're trying to spin up the conversation
of, ooh, shit, should Noya move up? And if he
does, who's he going to fight? Well, look at
how awesome Espinoza just looked. Yeah, I don't
think Noya should fight Espinoza for his first
fight up. That's stupid. For a first fight at
126, that's a really bad idea. That's stupid.
Yeah, I got my seat booked at the old man bar.
They've been going crazy this week. What are
they doing for all the other cards? Like the
Canelo card? Yeah. They'll probably... He'll
show them. But they're on in the morning, so
I don't want to wake up early and ride a train
to Tokyo. And I also don't think Canelo beating
the shit out of Skull is worth spending the night
in Tokyo. There's a lot of other good stuff on
it, though. Yeah, but I can watch it at home.
True. It's my only. It's the train rides and
or spending the night that ruin it for me. well
speaking of ruin naoya in a way undisputed super
bantamweight champion is going to fucking ruin
cardenas i'm sorry uh i don't make the rules
it's just gonna happen it's just how it is man
um i really you know it does look really shitty
though yeah did you see the picture yeah he looks
like a fucking alien the way he's trying to cut
himself down Is it a weight cut thing, do you
think? He doesn't usually look this bad. I think
it's a weight cut thing. He's probably ready
to move up. Part of it is he's had his hair under
his hat. His cheeks have been really sunken.
Yeah, you don't usually see that much of his
face, though, because his hair. But I think he
looks like shit. Yeah, he does. I think he looks
like shit. And he's wearing light colors, which
make him look worse. He always wears light colors,
but it makes him look worse. I'm going to have
to check. I'm going to have to watch the weigh
-in. Which was today. No, it'll be Saturday.
So it's tomorrow for us. So we'll see how he
looks. It should be next weekend. That's what
I meant. Saturday. Next Saturday. Not next week
from tomorrow. I wonder if it was just him coming
off the plane and stuff is part of why he looks
so shit. That's a long plane ride. Oh, hell yeah.
I know Inouye's not doing it the way I do it,
but that's a long -ass plane ride. No, it's considered
the longest flight. that you can take is LAX
to Tokyo. Makes sense. That's the longest flight
on Earth. I wonder if that's part of why he just
looked like shit. Some people don't fly very
well. And as far as I know, Inoue doesn't fly
a whole bunch at all. No, because he's been fighting
in Japan most of his life. Yeah. He's got a whole
week. He's got a whole week to not look like
shit. Still, the weight cut could be going bad.
But yeah, we'll see next Saturday how they're
doing. I think even in a way looking like shit
beats Cardenas. Sorry, Cardenas. Is Monday a
holiday next week? It is, yeah. So that's golden
week. i forget which holiday there's three holidays
in a row um so if you take that week off of work
you only use two vacation days so like half of
japan goes on vacation that week i see yeah and
so one day is green day where you're supposed
to go outside and see plants and the another
day is sports day and i think Maybe the Emperor's
birthday is in there, the Showa day. But that
might be Tuesday this week. The 29th is a holiday
here. So the 29th of April and then the 5th,
6th, 7th, I think, of May are all holidays. Well,
that's it. That's all we had on the docket. Let
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is being released. We're heading into The Weeknd.
Thrinco de Mayo is what I've been calling it.
Excellent. Because there's three fucking wild
cards that are coming up. Parting words. Parting
words. Pace yourself. Ah, that's a good one.
You don't want to drink too much tequila on Canelo
night that you miss in a way. Yeah. And that
one is in the middle of the day. That's not going
to stop anybody. No, but it goes with the pace
yourself part because if you've got other shit
that you've got to do the rest of the day, it's
okay to be maybe a little buzzed as you're mowing
your lawn or whatever. Be careful. Drink responsibly.
Make sure you hydrate. Yeah, smoke a joint instead
maybe. Try that. See if that works for you. Or
go foster a kitten. That's fun. That's my parting
words. Help a local animal shelter. They need
it. I promise you they need the help. All right.
That's it for Boxing Before Dark. Does that mean
the sun's going down if the episode's ending?
We need like a sundown. What's the sound effect
in the old western?